Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both the Yale Union and the Dartmouth Debaters on Circuit "will sound the death knell to formal and intercollegiate debating" according to simultaneous announcements from both Hanover and New Haven. Prophesies like that are notoriously easy to make and do not count for much in themselves. What is far more important at present than the relative merits of the two proposals, upon which no judgment can fairly be pronounced so early, is the incidental publicity which they will afford to collegiate debating. Space, headlines, discussion, all these are blessings which will give no negligible impetus to a languishing...
...Formal practice will begin on March...
Oxford and Cambridge suggest themselves as source of this radical change, almost without precedent as it is in any college of the United States today. Indeed, the official announcement points out that in the past Harvard's period of formal teaching and examination has always been from two to three months longer than in the British or Continental-universities. And this fact is cited in partial justification of the reduction of formal exercises now decreed by Harvard. The use of that particular argument is significant. Time was, not many years ago, when American educators for the most part spoke...
...Harvard calendar, cutting away six weeks of formal lectures and recitations, surely gives liberal allowance to student opinion on this score. But it goes further. It takes very effectively into account the immense amount of work which has been done in recent years in the investigation of all those conditions which may be shown, by scientific test and inquiry, to be the most favorable conditions under which human beings can work and study and enlarge their capacities. The novel departure at Harvard pays real deference, in short, to the modern science of pedagogics. The declaration that "the student must have...
Suddenly?like the door of a jack-in-the-box?the heavy portal of the Sejm flies open. The Josef-in-the-box stands there, surrounded by his Cabinet. They are in formal dress, ablaze with orders. The Marshal, towering and black-browed, wears only his field uniform, wrinkled, unadorned...